Sometimes, we see blue—preferably in the town of Schwetzingen. It is the first and only town in Germany that has a museum dedicated entirely to this one colour. The Rhine-Neckar region offers more than 230 exhibition buildings plus 110 big or small theatres and innumerable concerts and festivals. This is a great starting point to get ready for your next after-work activity—using our stories and event tips: What do “new music” concerts in the Heidelberg Tankturm tower sound like, or poems written in Palatine dialect? We take you to the inside of old cinemas and new spaces for culture, or into the local graffiti scene.
Taking wood for a spin
Paying a visit to the woodturning workshop in Neckarsteinach
“Films that move you”
The Girls Go Movie festival in Mannheim promotes young female filmmakers
Food for thought
The Mon Général in Neustadt presents political theatre.
Walk-in dreams
Otfried Culmann has created a fantasy garden in Billigheim-Ingenheim
Deeper insights
The Weitersehen app provides deeper insights on bicycle rides through the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis district
Shared open space
Students and trainees have built a self-managed residence hall in Heidelberg.
Good perspectives for young photographers
One of the most important awards for young photographers is organised in Neustadt
Under the starry sky
On a journey into space at the Mannheim Planetarium
Stage lights off!
The Schloss-Schule school for visually impaired and blind pupils in Ilvesheim offers cultural events in the dark.
The mangers of Bornheim
The town becomes a manger village during the Christmas season.
Stones, spirits, and art made in Zimbabwe
The Bettendorff gallery brings Shona Art to Gauangelloch.
Walther in a Memory of the World
The Codex Manesse stored in Heidelberg is one of the most important books in the world.
A theatrical troupe that brings people together
The Chawwerusch theatre in Herxheim tells stories for and with the local people.
Stony Witnesses
Tracing the Celts near Bad Dürkheim
A theatre on Tromm mountain
Jürgen Flügge brings dramatic art to the countryside in his Hof-Theater-Tromm theatre
Theatre in a tower
It’s probably the smallest theatre in Germany and it is located in Freinsheim.
A theatre in the bend
A small place offering great stage art in Neustadt-Hambach
Magical
Torsten Rau manages the office of the Magischer Zirkel in Lampertheim.
Homeless, unrecognised, yet admired
The writer Augusta Bender is revered in Schefflenz.
The Lady of Crimeheim
Crime novelist Ingrid Noll leads visitors through Wein-heim on an audio guide tour
A house that opens up spaces
How the barac project attracts artists to Mannheim
A bridging house
A place for art: The house at the weir footbridge in Heidelberg
The Ring that opens horizons to the world
The Bensheim Eysoldt-Ring is one of Germany’s most important acting awards
The world of sounds from Mannheim’s Jungbusch
We pay a visit to the OMM Orientalische Musikakademie Mannheim
For the love of paper
In Mannheim, Annette Schrimpf runs one of the last bookbinderies in the region.